Schumer on Warren: Primaries 'killer'

Sen. Chuck Schumer, the No. 3 Senate Democrat, said when it comes to the 2016 presidential nominations, he hopes there won’t be a Democratic primary.

The New York Democrat was asked Thursday about rumors that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) might mount a challenge to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whom Schumer has said he supports for 2016.

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“When I took over the [Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee] in 2005, we instituted a new policy, we tried to avoid primaries, because primaries are really a killer,” Schumer said Thursday at The Atlantic’s Washington Ideas Forum.